Development and evaluation of a model of programming errors

Proceedings - 2003 IEEE Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, HCC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 7-14

  Ko, A J ^a   Myers, B A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING; ERROR TYPES; EVENT-BASED; LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTS; PROGRAMMING ERRORS; PROGRAMMING STYLES; PROGRAMMING SYSTEM;

ERRORS;

EID: 4544284515     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HCC.2003.1260196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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